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Wood Group provides engineering services for Flint Hills Resources refinery upgrade
Wood Group is providing detailed engineering, procurement and other services to Flint Hills Resources Corpus Christi, LLC (FHR) for its Eagle Ford modification project at its refinery in South Texas. The project will enable the refinery to process 100 per cent US crude, primarily from the Eagle Ford shale region, into transportation fuels.

Flint Hills plans $300M in additional upgrades at Rosemount refinery
The Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend refinery today announced plans to pursue a pair of innovative projects that will help maintain the long-term viability of its business and benefit the environment. The projects include a new combined heat and power (CHP) system that will allow the refinery to efficiently generate a portion of its own electricity, and a new process for removing sulfur from gasoline and using it to produce a highly stable form of fertilizer. Both projects have the potential to help improve Minnesota’s air quality.

Flint Hills Resources to Implement More Stringent Energy Efficiency and Emission Standards as Part of Major Refinery Improvement
Flint Hills Resources today announced that it will apply rigorous energy efficiency and emission standards to a series of proposed projects at its Pine Bend refinery as part of an agreement with key environmental organizations. The company will also donate $1 million to expand Project Green Fleet, a clean air program it helped found in 2005.

Last November Flint Hills Resources announced plans to make more than $400 million in improvements to several processing units at the refinery in an effort to improve reliability, reduce key emissions, and improve its ability to convert crude oil into transportation fuel. The projects involve replacing three less-efficient heaters with two new state-of-the-art heaters, upgrading an existing process heater, and making improvements to the refinery’s cooling towers. Once complete the new and modified equipment and process improvements are expected to allow the refinery to operate closer to its current design capacity of 320,000 barrels per day.

The company proactively engaged the environmental community through the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and the Environmental Integrity Project on ways to improve the projects prior to formal regulatory review. As a result, Flint Hills agreed to make a number of adjustments to its permit proposal, including:

• Adopting a more energy efficient design and operation plan for the new and modified heaters
• Setting stack exhaust temperature limits for the heaters, which will ensure the equipment is operated in a way that minimizes energy use
• Establishing heating value limits on fuels used in the heaters, which ensures the use of efficient fuels such as natural gas and high-quality fuel gas
• Agreeing to additional enforceable limits on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions from the refinery’s cooling towers and regular monitoring
• Taking stringent sulfur dioxide limits (S02) on the combustion of fuel gas used by the heaters

Flint Hills Resources to Make Series of Operational Improvements at Pine Bend Refinery
Flint Hills Resources today announced plans to make improvements to several processing units at its Pine Bend refinery in Rosemount. The projects are expected to improve reliability, reduce key emissions, and improve the refinery’s ability to convert crude oil into transportation fuel.

Flint Hills Resources Studying Opportunities To Refine More Texas Crude While Continuing Success In Decreasing Emissions
Flint Hills Resources is considering spending more than $250 million to enable its West Refinery to process more Eagle Ford crude oil while extending its ability to reduce criteria air emissions, leaders said today.